Tuesday, May 31, 2016

President Buhari: I Feel Pity For Lai Mohammed

President Muhammadu Buhari says he feels pity for minister of
information and culture, Lai Mohammed, for having the responsibility of
explaining all his actions and his inaction to Nigerians.

Speaking on Monday when he hosted state house correspondents at the
presidential villa in Abuja, Buhari said he and his cabinet members have
been doing their best to deliver the change which the APC had promised
Nigerians during the 2015 electioneering campaign.

The president described his ministers as hardworking, saying “One of the
men I pity is Lai Mohammed. Everyday he is on TV explaining our
performance or lack of it.”

He said his ministers toil day and night to ensure that his
administration succeeds. “The ministers sit down day and night to work.
Some of them have literarily lost weight because they were sleeping less
and eating less (while working on the budget). They were working on
every kobo to be spent.

“We recently just found out that we are poor because we don’t have
anything to fall back to. This is the condition we found ourselves and
this change mantra had to go through hell up till yesterday.

“And
for you to talk to whoever came to visit us throughout that year, I
wonder how each of your diaries would be, because people were expecting
this change mantra in their own way.

“How do you define change?
Luckily our party identified three major items, security, economy and
corruption... I think we will recover by the fourth quarter of the
year.”